Put Up on your Netflix list

Yes, I was tardy to the party. Everyone was right when they said Up was like the bestest movie evah. Totally right. It's the best movie ever. Its so sweet and loving and  just sweet and genuine. You end up wanting to hug the movie.  The one thing I will say that might be negative is that the first twenty dialogue free minutes of the film are the very best of the entire thing, worth the price of admission for that bit alone - in the same was as the first twenty minutes of dialogue free action was in Wal-E. And then they start talking.

Right up until they break the spell the movie is so absolutely beautiful and magic that the first time anything like dialogue happens its almost a let down. There always has to be a bad guy and the bad guy is a major buzz kill and he talks too much. If the whole of the move was just the first twenty minutes it would win Best Picture and nobody would say a damn word against the voting members of the Academy for their choice. I could have watched the whole movie dialogue free and without the addition of Bad Guy and his attendant unlovely dialogue and it would have been fine.

But. I do want  one of the dog to human translation collars.

But still, great movie totally deserves all the accolades and everything your friends told you about it. If the first dialogue free minutes don't leave you a weepy mess you have no soul.

You know how else you can tell you have no soul? If the idea of making homemade (from a box) pancakes with fresh blue berries  isn't the best idea you have had all day.  Yes, the berries will leave your hands purple, but its okay it would be bragging  to say "I made blueberry pancakes at some point". You can make people equally jealous of your clearly superior  meal planning decision making skills if they see your purple finger nails. They'll know and they'll feel bad about bragging on their  low fat, diet Ize Kreem bits they they ate all weekend. They may have been able to eat a whole popcorn bowl of bits but you had three mini pancakes and dozens of blueberries. You may have eaten more calories but you will end up with a healthy urinary tract system and with much higher levels of antioxidants. So there. The healthy goodness of the blueberries almost technically could overwhelm the arguably less than optimal health benefits of the pancakes themselves. Best. Idea. Ever.

Even better idea? Watch Up while eating blueberry pancakes!